Once an unhappy young man came
to an old master and told he was very sad and asked for
a solution.
The old
Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a
handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink
it.
"How does
it taste?" the Master asked.
"Awful,"
spat the apprentice.
The Master
chuckled and then asked the young man to take another
handful of salt and put it in the
lake.
The two
walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice
swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, "Now
drink from the lake."
As the
water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How
does it taste?"
"Good!"
remarked the apprentice.
"Do you
taste the salt?" asked the
Master.
"No," said the young
man.
The Master
sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, "The
pain of life is pure salt; no more, no
less.
The amount of pain in life
remains the same, exactly the
same.
But the
amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it
into.
So when
you are in pain, the only thing you can do
is to enlarge your sense of
things...
Stop being
a glass. Be a lake!"
"Life has
so much in store for us only if we
believe!"
